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David Laws has gone.
Pity .
Waste of a talent the country needed.
Watty
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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there was now way he could carry on, talented or not.
the country is up in arms over his hypocricy.
Good!
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Danny Alexander to replace David Laws. Danny who?
Watty
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Laws has done the decent thing and resigned. It's a pity that his bright career has come to such an undignified end.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
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Danny Alexander, MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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laws will be back after a decent length of time, past history confirms this.
Brian Dixon
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sounds like he got shafted so to speak.
It is infuriating that good men have fallen because of the greed of some in the last government. This government is reaping the aftermath of the greedy ones that went before them.
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Are we saying it was only the Labour party that had their noses in the trough re expenses
No, you are right - I should correct that - the previous administration and MPs
Come on Bern, Laws must have been aware of the furore caused by the previous administrations "trough snouting", so, to pull this stunt was the height of either stupidity or duplicity.
Whichever it was, he demonstrated that he didn't have the qualities required for senior office and had to go.
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I heard his apology on this mornings news.If he really wanted to keep his 'affair' and sexuality private that being the case he needn't have claimed any expenses for the room where he lived.Therefore ensuring that his partners address was not entered on the expenses sheet and therefore open to scrutiny.
Secondly he claimed he had made "no financial gain" if that is the case
1. Why did he bother claiming £960pcm in the first place? and
2. Why does he now feel it necessary to repay £40,000?
I'm afraid he has lost all credibility and bearing in mind his position in the Treasurer it leads one to ask if he can't handle his domestic affairs how the hell are we supposed to trust him with the national tax payers coffers?
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
I know, guys, I know. But the man is from old fashioned Catholic stock and there seems to be more going on here than simple greed - the simple greed that shone through the dealings of the previous shower in every possible way. (Incidentally, Hazel Blears: how did that happen????). As most of you will already know, I have nothing but venom and vitriol for the majority of those caught with their hands in the till and their trousers around their ankles, but I am also mindful that we are all human beings and as frail and fallible as that implies, and that things are often not as simple as our poor, tired brains would like!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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as said above if he had genuinely wanted to keep his private life private, he would not have claimed anything in the first place.
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BERN
I think you are being a TAD unfair on the last Govt.
All 3 parties were caught with there hand in the till so to speak, but appears not much has changed, and all 3 parties still being caught
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Keith - still at it you said................no this is not a present transgression but a past one during the last parliament, not incidentally in any way to be taken as a party political point.
AAARRRGGGHH!! I mean the whole lot, not just the govt!! My bad, sorry!
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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BAZ;
I'v tried to avoid the politics bit, apart from trying to make things fair as all 3 parties have got caught up in this fiasci
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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barry
you are right about it not being a party thing, however the coalition was based on the new politics.
sadly this is not a good start, albeit that the offence was in the last parliament.
we all want to be assured when the taxes rise and services fall, that the people in charge are not creaming off for themselves.
